Word: democratics
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...need to put everything through amicroscope," says John Deeken, spokesperson forRep. David R. Obey (D-WI), the ranking Democrat onAppropriations...
Republicans contend that truly needy children will continue to receive benefits. But with this particular issue-which will affect 1 in 10 Americans, the majority of them children-Democrats have been given an opportunity to seize some political advantage. "The American public expects us to cut spending and downsize government," says Wisconsin Democrat David Obey, ranking member of the House Appropriations Committee, "but I don't think they expect us to make war on kids...
...tremendous charge," says TIME Rome correspondent Greg Burke. "They're claiming that he was a full-fledged member of the mafia. If it's true, it's a terrible indictment of Italian society." Building their case on testimony from Mafia turncoats and former members of Andreotti's Christian Democrat party, prosecutors painted a devastating portrait of a political patriarch who mingled with world leaders one moment, then traded favors with Sicily's underworld the next. In response, Andreotti insists he's been set up. He has waived his parliamentary immunity as "senator-for-life" in order to face trial Sept...
...sweeps up the shattered pieces of the Microsoft settlement, Bingaman must be wondering whether she's been promising more than she can deliver. The wife of Senator Jeff Bingaman, a three-term Democrat from New Mexico, Bingaman was once a plaintiff's lawyer who could claim a record-making $1 billion judgment against a foreign uranium cartel. By the end of last year, she had initiated more than 33 civil antitrust cases, compared with an average of 10 a year for her Republican predecessors. But the legal theory of antitrust has been changing. In federal courts, where Republican-appointed judges...
...mailman from the blue-collar town of McKees Rocks, Pennsylvania, Kasich, in an act of college rebellion upon reaching Ohio State University, rejected his Democratic roots in favor of the populist, antibureaucratic doctrine. But whatever complaints he may have about government, he nonetheless has spent his entire career on the public payroll. (``I'm going to end up in the private sector,'' he vows. ``At some point, I'm out of this.'') His first job after graduating from college in 1974 was as an aide in the state senate, and within four years he had won a seat there...